Betty Jean Craige

Betty Jean Craige retired from the University of Georgia in 2011 as University Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. She has been a scholar, a teacher, a translator of Spanish poetry, and a writer of fiction and non-fiction.Over five decades Betty Jean published numerous books, including the biography of a remarkable human, titled Eugene Odum: Ecosystem Ecologist and Environmentalist, and the shorter biography of a remarkable bird,...See more

Betty Jean Craige retired from the University of Georgia in 2011 as University Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. She has been a scholar, a teacher, a translator of Spanish poetry, and a writer of fiction and non-fiction.Over five decades Betty Jean published numerous books, including the biography of a remarkable human, titled Eugene Odum: Ecosystem Ecologist and Environmentalist, and the shorter biography of a remarkable bird, titled Conversations with Cosmo: At Home with an African Grey Parrot. She wrote a Sunday column in the Athens Banner-Herald titled "Cosmo Talks" and later collected those essays in Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo. After retirement she turned her attention to fiction and published six Witherston Murder Mysteries-Downstream, Fairfield's Auction, Dam Witherston, Saxxons in Witherston, Death in Potter's Woods, and Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo-and a thriller about genome therapy titled Aldo. Parrot Sanctuary is her seventh Witherston Murder Mystery.Betty Jean lives in Athens, Georgia, with her beloved Cosmo. See: http: //www.bettyjeancraige.org. See less